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How to Use Agent Skills

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Mar 18, 2026
Agent skills take center stage as the conversation explores reusable AI capabilities, testing methods, and the most valuable skill categories. It also looks at mobile control for Claude Cowork, China’s growing unease around OpenClaw, and bold predictions that AI could dramatically reshape cloud growth.
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Dispatch Signals A Persistent AI Layer

  • Dispatch matters less as a phone feature than as another step toward a persistent AI layer that follows users across devices and contexts.
  • Nathaniel Whittemore frames the broader trend as "clawification" where tools converge on the same agent form factors instead of copying one product outright.
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China's OpenClaw Craze Triggered AI Anxiety

  • China's OpenClaw boom is colliding with state anxiety over privacy, security, and labor disruption.
  • Regulators issued do's and don'ts, state entities warned staff off installs, and WeChat searches for "AI anxiety" spiked as OpenClaw mania spread.
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AI Could Reprice The Entire Cloud Market

  • Andy Jassy's claim that AI could double AWS revenue suggests AI is expanding cloud demand, not just shifting winners inside it.
  • Nathaniel Whittemore notes $600 billion by 2036 implies about 17% annual growth, making the forecast big but not obviously extravagant.
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